Styled Shoot: 1940’s Shoot by Maegan Hay Imaging

I’m delighted to share another lovely styled shoot that I had the pleasure of collaborating on with Maegan Hay Imaging. Here’s what Maegan has to say about the inspiration behind the shoot:

In planning for this shoot, one thing became glaringly clear me – the 1940’s that we use as inspiration have been highly romanticized. In reality it was a time of loss, sadness, hardship, ration, and war.

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They didn’t feed full meals at weddings (if they even had a celebratory wedding) because they couldn’t afford it; many women didn’t have wedding dresses because they were more poor than we can ever imagine, and men wore their military uniform because it was the nicest garment they owned; Children were sold, men went to war and didn’t come home, people went hungry and homeless.

It was, however, a time of blushing romance, chivalry, emotions poured onto pages upon pages of letters sent overseas to a wishful recipient…One thing always prevailed, and that was love. I wanted to create a mix of authentic 40’s, and “Hollywood 40s” for this shoot.

We didn’t serve a full meal; we used actual wedding napkins from a 1942 wedding; our groom wore his dress greens and there were authentic 40s letters between lovers during WWII. Our car was a 1941 Studebaker Champion. I hope you see the magic that I see in these images, and that is that if all you have on your wedding day is each other, then you’re blessed.